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Women in the Gallipoli Campaign
There is no record in the Ottoman side of women ever having been recruited to the army or trained in any way. It would be completely unprecedented in my knowledge that women would have been officially drawn into the war effort as, let's say, uniform snipers. Many who served on both fronts said the Turkish front was worse, just infinitely worse than serving on the Western Fronts. They were confronted 24 hours a day, seven days a week with nonstop machine gun fire and artillery fire.